sleepcamel.net : brad weikel

While I'm trying to focus on strictly academic and analytic topics on this site, it's inevitable - particularly during the summer, when I'm out of school - that some of my posts will end up being about my life. Such as this one.

After a brutally exhausting first year in graduate school, I've been looking for an excuse to slow down, at least in terms of my coursework. The financial pressure to put in more hours at work has played a role, as well. Well, turns out it would be a number of forces that would lead me to reduce my coursework... but that hardly means I won't be frantically busy.

The following video is my final project for my visual research methods course. I'll post more about it later on, once I've had time to finish the rest of my finals, and unwind for a few weeks, but I wanted to post it right away because, well, I'm really proud of it. Despite all of the animation work I did as an undergrad, and despite all of the design work I've done over the past few years, this was actually my first editing project, so I'm very pleased that it turned out as well as it did.

So here it is...

Generally speaking, I'm going to try to stay away from anecdotal posts like the ones I've written in the past, in the interest of trying to build a useful academic space on this site. However, this amused me to no end...

I just had lunch with a friend and, as we parted ways outside the restaurant, I stepped into the street without looking to my right. I realized what I was doing halfway across, and turned to see a big delivery truck coming towards me. Rather than stopping and waiting or, better yet, returning to the curb, I chose to run across the street, in front of the truck.